[-] jon@lemdro.id 45 points 3 weeks ago

Good luck debugging AI-generated code...

[-] jon@lemdro.id 6 points 5 months ago

What, the generic Windows driver wasn't good enough...?

[-] jon@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

NP. Yes ABS is designed to avoid exactly that issue, essentially by implementing in a mechanical way what drivers used to do manually - pumping the brakes etc.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

They're "brakes" and it's "braking". Yes, I know the previous commenter got it wrong as well.

The usual problem with slamming on the brakes is that it causes the wheels to lock up and slide instead of slowing the vehicle down.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The way politicians and the political system nakedly serves the needs and interests of corporations and the wealthy, and not the average individual.

The way that the price you're quoted invariably gets bumped up by various taxes.

The insane system that is tipping, including the fact that a lot of workers are so underpaid that they rely on tips to get by.

The incessant adverts on TV for medical products, particularly prescription drugs.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 8 points 1 year ago

"Let all brave Prussians follow me!"— Field Marshal Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (6 May 1757), at the Battle of Prague, immediately before being struck by a cannonball.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

They already told us that their optimisations consist of them telling us to buy better hardware.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago

Relativity only applies to local reference frames and not to the recession rates of cosmologically distant objects.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago

I can't find any reference that says it's moving away from us at twice the speed of light, which would violate Relativity. The fact that it is further away from us in light years than the age of the universe in years, is due to the fact that the space itself is expanding.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It doesn't. Gravity is caused by mass not spin. The planet's rotation about it's own axis will create a centrifugal effect that offsets gravity, but the effect is negligible for anything rotating as slow as planets.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

You will know us by the trail of our rubbish.

[-] jon@lemdro.id 0 points 1 year ago

I played the original Elite on the BBC, and then Elite 2 & 3 on the Amiga. Elite Dangerous on the PC was just plain dull by comparison.

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